3D Capturing (News)

Students in Professor Matias Del Campo’s Architecture Thesis class have been exploring organic, cave-like structures for use in a real-world underground architectural space. His students were tasked with constructing textured surfaces reminiscent of cave interiors such as stalactites and stalagmites, rocky surfaces, and erosion using a variety of mediums-from spray foam to poured concrete. These creations were then scanned at …

The pushke exhibit first appeared at the Jean & Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies in the summer of 2015. The exhibit was composed of 40 pushkes (charitable donation boxes) of all shapes and sizes, situated in a series of display cases. The many diverse charity boxes reflect the breadth of the Jewish Heritage Collection Dedicated to Mark and Dave Harris, …

Stamps student Annie Turpin came to the 3D Lab with an idea for her Sophomore studio project: She wanted to create a hologram system, similar to the 3D Lab’s “Pepper’s Pyramid” display, that would allow her to project a miniaturized version of herself into a pinhole camera. The concept of Pepper’s Pyramid is derived from an illusion technique created by …

The Stamps School of Art and Design features a fabrication class called Bits and Atoms. This course is taught by Sophia Brueckner and it focuses on detailed and accurate modeling for 3D digital fabrication and manufacturing. Sophia brought her students into the UM3D Lab to use our new Photogrammetry rig. This rig features 3 cameras that take multiple photos of …

Donated in 1899 by wealthy Detroit drug manufacturer, Frederick Stearns, the Stearn’s Collection is a university collection comprised of over 2,500 historical and contemporary musical instruments from all over the world, with many of the instruments in the collection being particularly fragile or one of a kind. In 1966 Stearns grew to include the only complete Javanese gamelan in the world, and …